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mgk

nothing inside

Release date: 25th September 2020

From Tickets To My Downfall
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About This Track

Machine Gun Kelly and iann dior trade verses on a song about the wreckage left behind when you pour yourself into someone else and find yourself hollowed out. The track moves between two perspectives on the same collapse: Kelly's account of giving everything and discovering there's nothing left to offer, iann dior's mirror image of self-sabotage and emotional depletion. The chorus lands on a single devastating image, the moment when someone looks at you and recognises the absence where a person used to be. The song builds its argument through accumulation. Skeletons, nightmares, a heart given away and lost. Smoking too much, drunk texts, a heart torn open again. By the outro, the metaphor shifts into something more clinical: running low on serotonin, struggling to function without the thing that kept you going. It's a portrait of two people trying to love each other whilst falling apart, each unable to be what the other needs because neither has anything left to give.

"nothing inside" is a track by mgk, from the album Tickets To My Downfall, released 25th September 2020. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about mgk.

About the Artist

mgk

mgk

Lyrics

nothing inside

[Verse 1: Machine Gun Kelly]

I keep doing that thing where I'm thinking again

I got skeletons in my closet (Closet)

I got nightmares sleeping again

I gave you my heart, you lost it (Lost it)

She's a girl from a small town, but we're in a big city

And she's in my passenger seat right now

'Cause we live in a small world

I told her, "It's all yours

But I need to know if you're down"

[Pre-Chorus: Machine Gun Kelly]

I can't help it (I can't help it)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

[Chorus: Machine Gun Kelly]

I did this all for you, look what I turned into

She looked dead into my eyes and she saw nothing inside

I did this all for you, look what I turned into

She looked dead into my eyes and she saw nothing inside

[Verse 2: iann dior]

(Huh, yeah)

I keep doing that thing where I'm smoking again

Too much and now I'm faded

Keep tearing my heart, now it's open again

Few drunk texts, now you're naked

[Pre-Chorus: iann dior]

I can't help it, I can't help it

I feel selfish, I feel selfish (Selfish)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

[Chorus: Machine Gun Kelly & iann dior]

I did this all for you, look what I turned into

She looked dead into my eyes and she saw nothing inside

I did this all for you, look what I turned into

She looked dead into my eyes and she saw nothing inside

[Bridge: Machine Gun Kelly & iann dior]

(It's hard, hm, da-da-da-da)

It's been a long time since I was young

And she was the first face I was looking to call mine

She said it's alright, had a couple of drinks

And I got issues we can fight about all night

[Chorus: Machine Gun Kelly]

I did this all for you, look what I turned into

She looked dead into my eyes and she saw nothing inside

I did this all for you, look what I turned into

She looked dead into my eyes and she saw nothing inside

[Outro: Machine Gun Kelly, Machine Gun Kelly & iann dior]

I'm running low on serotonin in these empty moments

I'm having trouble operating without my main component

I'm running low on serotonin in these empty moments

I'm having trouble operating without my main component

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Track details

From Tickets To My Downfall

2020
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Tickets To My Downfall
Tickets To My Downfall
mgk
25th September 2020
Release year
2020
  1. —WWIII
    1:00
  2. —kevin and barracuda - interlude
    1:23
  3. —all I know
  4. —play this when i'm gone
    3:22
  5. —nothing inside (feat. iann dior)
    2:52
  6. —banyan tree - interlude
    1:31
  7. —lonely
    3:10
  8. —play this when i’m gone
  9. —nothing inside

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
24kGoldn, Dark Waves, iann dior, mgk, Omer Fedi, Travis Barker
Producer
Omer Fedi, Travis Barker
Co-Producer
Omer Fedi
Engineer
Jonathan Mireles, Kevin Gruft, Matt Malpass
Bass
Omer Fedi
Drums
Travis Barker
Guitar
Dark Waves, Omer Fedi
Assistant Engineer
Jake Magness
Drum Programmer
Travis Barker
Mastering Engineer
Chris Gehringer
Mixing Engineer
Adam Hawkins
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